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It asks for gender in the Individual Questions starting on page 7.

Don't believe everything that you read on BMD certificates and census returns. People lied, forgot, and confused facts. Some unofficially changed their names and used those names on official documents. Registrars and census enumerators made mistakes and often didn't check with the subjects, or could...

Brian,
Thanks for that. I don't know the date or place but I suspect that it was in America. I'm currently trying to find that info from the American source of the photo.
Keith

Does this tie logo mean anything to anyone? He was an actor/writer/producer in UK and US.



ID:4168

This site might give some clues.
http://www.cartes.freeuk.com/

Provision merchant? The 'cli' might look like 'ch'.

Try this
http://www.whatsinaname.net/about_us.html

The Family Records Centre, now closed, told me that this register was destroyed in 1954.

http://www.ice.org.uk/homepage/index.asp
Institute of Civil Engineers.

Thanks, Mike. I didn't know about the two forms of AVL.

I record them as true name aka assumed name. It's messy but it's accurate.

I know that AVLs were generated for the 1918 and 1945 general elections but was this done specially for those post-war elections, or were AVLs generated for all general and local elections?

ID:3149

I would try a shop which sells art and craft materials.

John T. Blewett, 34, Kenwyn, tin miner is on the 1901censusonline.com site. I didn't check on the others as I don't have any credits left.

Thanks margarita. I still can't sign in so perhaps I had better request another trial.

Please! Can anyone tell me if this site is still active or if I have an access problem?

I've just tried to access the archive and have been told that my e-mail address does not belong to an institution. Access denied! Looks as if this source has been closed. Can anyone confirm this?

Thanks for that.

On a 1918 electoral list there are abbreviations H, O, HO, R, NM and BP in the 'Qualifications' columns. Can someone translate, please?

ID:2952

It's possible that the name originated in South Africa. I'll have a look at that. Thanks.

The mother's maiden name was Bernaschina. However, the family was known as Morland and used this name even on some official documents.

Paula, Her father was a soldier stationed in Ireland in 1899 but he is not on the 1901 census. He was probably in South Africa. The mother was in Nottingham with her parents, but no mention of Pirdie so she was born after 1901. The family seemed to have stayed in the Nottingham area as birth certs f...

I'd forgotten that the wife's grandfather was Italian and that several of the offspring anglicised the Italian names which were given to them. So Pirdie/Pirdita looks quite likely.

Thanks for the responses and ideas. The surname was Griffiths with DoB between 1899 and 1915 but I can't find a match in any search. Pirdie wasn't a maiden name of anyone on the mother's side, but I can't trace the father's ancestors. After more searches I found, as in those links, some use of the n...

I also think it is Pirdie but I didn't mention that as I didn't want to put ideas into anyone's mind. I can't find Pirdie in any list of names and I get no hits with Free BMD or Ancestry. I've tried all sorts of combinations of possible letters but nothing sensible comes up.

Thanks, Jane.